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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dentimarius:
There are few members here, including me :D, with this problem. I think the only solution to bring back to life the phone is flashing the bootloader using jtag method. There is a topic here about this subject, one member has donate his phone for experiments, and may be in a few days or weeks we'll have a solution.

Anyone tried using adb commands? It is a small probability to work...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phk:
but does it NEVER turn on? Not even the screen?

Have you tried to press voldown + home + power WITHOUT the battery and then plug in the battery KEEPING the buttons pressed?

Try it!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ariedam:
It never turn on. Not even the screen. When I plug the charger (or the usb cable) it's get a little warm, but the screen didn't turn on.

My phone has the 3 buttons combo disable (I tried before the brick).

I already tried all combo buttons + battery, but nothing happened.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benjamin Dobell:
Hey guys,

Sorry to hear that your phone(s) won't turn on or respond when charging. I actually had this exact same problem about 3 weeks ago and I had to send my phone off to the UK for repair (I still haven't got it back!)

Also, I am one of the people involved in performing research into bringing phones back to life via JTAG. I was recently lent a phone for this purpose (it will be arriving on Monday). I can't guarantee I'll find a solution immediately however it is definitely theoretically possible.

My first recommendation if you haven't obviously voided your warranty is to send your phone off to Samsung for a warranty repair. However, if you can't get your phone repaired by Samsung and you would like to help the community come up with a solution then please consider donating/lending your phone to a developer (see The Junkheap thread in my signature).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ariedam:
adb didn't recognize my phone.

Can you send the link to the topic? I search it, but did't find.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phk:
Factory. Go for it. It shouldn't be expensive.

sorry man, just go deliver it..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ariedam:
The problem is that I bought the phone in Portugal (Fnac - blocked for TMN), but I live in Brazil. And the warranty isn't valid here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dentimarius:
Yeap...here it is; http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=756988

Next week the guys from the service will send me back my phone, bricked of course, because they can't unbrick it. I think I will send it to one developer from here, may he can find a solutions....

I just buy a brand new Galaxy S, but it has 3 button combo disabled, so the single way to put into recovery or download mode is using adb commands. Yet, I didn,t try reflash it because I'm afraid not to brick it too...:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ragin:
Remove the USB Cable & try that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fuzz21:
HELP PLEASE ! I Think my phone is Bricked ?

Hi

Today when i updated Launcher Pro and now it goes on a endless loop of showing just a black screen with the slide to unlock screen. It doesnt show anything and I tried getting into the debug menu (volume+home+power) it wont load that screen. I cant access the settings or mount the USB.

I have run out of options and need the community's help.

Please !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fuzz21:
Help !

I have the GT-I9000M Bell Vibrant and cant get into Recovery / Download Mode

What to do ??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frriction:
I m not sure but I had a sada me problem not to go into recovery mode. If trying ti boot in recovery mode and samsung logo is appering repetedly then try with relising power button second time logo appears. It helped to boot into recovery mode. I have a international version. Sorry for eng.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Return it. Nothing you can do
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fuzz21:
Yea i guess i have to get it serviced under the 1 year warranty. Does anyone know how i can avoid this problem in case this problem does happen again in the Future ??

Again thanks all for replying
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Eh mole. Sounds like a very rare problem
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fuzz21:
Yea i was lucky enough to get the batch of phones with No way of accessing Recovery Mode with the 3 button combo. So yea i kinda got screwed over, hope they will give me one that does have Rec console.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
[Q] [HELP] Phone seriously bricked

Hi All,

Hoping someone has a solution for this but I have been around the block with flashing issues and done countless searches and cant seem to find anyone who had this situation.

I had flashed to JPC firmware and all was working fine. I decided not having cifs and tun support, or the voodoo lagfix was annoying and decided to flash back to JM8. To start this process, I flashed the 512 pit file with no PDA file, and it flashed and turned off my device. I read this was better than combining the pit with PDA, and was planning to reflash the PDA with no pit after it restarted.

The problem is it didnt restart, and now wont restart. Its like the device has no power at all. No boot logo, no yellow exclamation error screen, no detection from the computer, no download mode, no nothing. Thinking about what i did, it seems that i repartitioned the device and wiped it, then didnt put anything back on so it doesnt know what to do when it boots. I thought it would at least power on, but i am getting nothing.

I have one of those phones that doesnt have the download mode working reliably. it only works from the yellow exclamation error screen and never when starting with the standard galaxy s loader page.

My question is, is there any way around this? are there any apps out there that can force load a flash? or am i overdue for a meeting with the samsung service centre?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paarry:
bro even i ve d same problem but kinda different one. it simply keeps on flashing at&t screen n doesn boot n was unable 2 do anything abt it. took it 2 samsung centre. they tld tat there's a problm wit d motherboard n it has 2 b changed. i gave it fr changing. awaiting eagerly fr word frm samsung abt my galaxy's status.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dekeijzer:
This must be the hardest to read reply ever. Where did you learn to spell??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gusoldier:
Had the same problem. Just take the battery out for a moment, then plug in the usb cable, then try to boot in recovry mode again. Mine started again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forumforce:
:)This is not a big problem, try to PRESS Vol- + Home + Power at the same time while the yellow triangle mention, it will turn into download mode again, cheers!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GhostSoldier:
I messed up my phone the same way. Flashed it, never booted up again and after removing the battery a couple of times - Phone ---> PC-symbol. Crap.

Had the damn thing for a week.

Also, I can only boot into recovery/download through ADB...

Return it to Samsung?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] belkre:
1. download and open odin 4.03

2. With oden 4.03 running connect the phone

3. remove battery

4. hold volume- home and power while inserting the battery

5. smile you should be in recovery

(worked for we with a bell phone with 3 button disabled with the connect to computer screen)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GhostSoldier:
Didn´t work for me :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
hi guys,

i think my problem is being confused with the previous post.

i dont get the yellow triangle, the phone doesnt power on. it doesnt charge, it doesnt detect on the computer... its like its dead. i only get a bit of warmth when i leave the usb plugged in, but the screen doesnt even power on. all this from flashing a pit file with no PDA. kind of makes sense, except for the bootloader apparently being hard coded and not updateable via flashing (which is why the 3 button combo issue cant be fixed).

it looks like my only option is some sort of jtag or direct motherboard connection that can flash a bootloader back on, because it looks like its all gone, bootloader and all...

i may have to take it into the service centre and deny all knowledge. hopefully if all diagnostics dont work and the only option is to do a recovery flash, there wont be any evidence :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danhalicki:
Yeah, had the exact same problem....loaded pit with no PDA and then nothing....no life at all. I had to send back to Samsung, luckily was within ELF period and was replaced free of charge :) Hopefully your outcome is the same!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivanchin99:
Well apps that can force load a flash wont be any use if you cant turn on your device right?

Hmm, i assume you are following the guide for flashing JM8 on the first page.. Strange that you would get problem whereas others have got it working

Did you tick the autoreboot and reset time?

Just trying to understand the situation :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
i guess IF you want to repartition with just the pit file you have to untick the "reboot" option but it has no advantages over repartitioning+flashing in one step. thats bad luck and i feel sorry for you! good luck with samsung support ;)

it's strange that odin even works like that, formating the booloader without placing a new one there ... but i think thats why odin is just for "internal" use ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivanchin99:
So the phone was bricked because the OP didnt tick reboot? wow, a really easy mistake to make. Odin basically reformatted the phone without anything inside, wiping it clean. Perhaps a disclaimer when you repartitioning without the proper options ticked should be in place
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aery:
Think before flash!

If you repartition the Phone, theres nothing left to boot. Only download-mode and recovery should be accessible through 3-button-combo.

If the 3-button-combo doesn´t work on your phone, bring it back to samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagentooboy:
Either take it back or donate it to JTAG research... sounds like a perfect JTAG phone :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
well things are often clearer in hindsight right? :) the problem with powerful flexible tools is they dont protect you from yourself.

but yeah samsung has a rubbish DOA policy which is only 14 days. my phone is a month old so not covered for automatic replacement. i gotta wait 5-10 working days and see what the service centre comes back with.

but i think the worst thing out of the whole situation was a colleague at work, who when i told about this story said... 'an iphone wouldnt do that'.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
lol. i understand your misery :D ... go and tell him, that he's an idot! you can't flash random firmwares onto an iphone like this so this reply is just bogus. in addition odin is an unofficial tool...

btw. have you tried to get into download mode with the other crazy methods like 'the oven' :D? i bet an iphone can't do that :cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fuzz21:
I got it to Work !!

So i figured out what was the issue. My phone was in a Force Close lag probelm and anyone who has the same issue as me check out this link.

http://androinica.com/2010/08/06/ho...s-safe-mode-to-get-out-of-a-force-close-loop/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
tried those two key combos the guy said, but it didn't take my to any where or did anything different for me
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garou_umbra_warrior:
[Q] galaxy s brick?

my galaxy s has stuck by too many gesture tries.but now the keyboard doesnt change from my native language (greek) to english so i can enter my gmail and reset it..what can i do?any ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
if you can enter into the Recovery Mode via the 3 button

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/GT-I9000

then you can select wipe data
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anarchyuk:
Lovely semi bricked phone

I was slightly bored today and flashed using kies to the 2.2 firmware, after booting and the samsung animation the screen just goes black! this phone used to go in to download mode and not recovery mode! now doesnt go into any...

my question to any one is!

if you turn the phone off and take the battery out and put it back in, when you plug the charger in and it charges with turning it on. if you then hold say the home key for about 20 seconds it starts to detect a new device but windows doesnt pick up a driver? is this for a flash box or something?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
My Galaxy S bricked itself... no 3BR, arrrrrggghhh! Help!

Today, my Bell Galaxy S bricked itself. Was working fine this AM. Took it out a half hour ago and it was really hot and did not power on. I held power button down for 5 seconds and it rebooted. Wait at animation screen... wait... wait.... it never boots up. It sits at animation screen for about 1 min, then goes black.

I tried rebooting it while connected to my linux PC, and the USB device never ever shows up during the boot process, so there is no way to connect with adb at all. And I can't do the 3 button recovery, I tried and tried before and it did not work, and it doesn't seem to be working now either.

My phone was rooted with one click lag fix installed... I am not sure if the OCLF is to blame, but am worried that this fact will void my warranty.

Does anyone have any ideas before I go back to the store? I am 8-9 days OUTSIDE my 30 days so I don't think I will be able to do an over the counter exchange...

Am I screwed?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
[Q] Bell Galaxy S Bricked itself... help!

Today, my Bell Galaxy S bricked itself. Was working fine this AM. Took it out a half hour ago and it was really hot and did not power on. I held power button down for 5 seconds and it rebooted. Wait at animation screen... wait... wait.... it never boots up. It sits at animation screen for about 1 min, then goes black.

I tried rebooting it while connected to my linux PC, and the USB device never ever shows up during the boot process, so there is no way to connect with adb at all. And I can't do the 3 button recovery, I tried and tried before and it did not work, and it doesn't seem to be working now either.

My phone was rooted with one click lag fix installed... I am not sure if the OCLF is to blame, but am worried that this fact will void my warranty.

Does anyone have any ideas before I go back to the store? I am 8-9 days OUTSIDE my 30 days so I don't think I will be able to do an over the counter exchange...

Am I screwed?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
I cross-posted this in the Android dev. thread since XDA did not let me delete this one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
firstable, you are NOT bricked

if you are truely bricked, you'll see this screen instead

what you have is a stuck at booting phone...

seems like you are another one who suffers from the one click lag fix, side effect.

many people have reported the same problem after applying the lag fix

the best thing you can do is figure out a way to get into Recovery Mode (which is rather impossible without the 3 buttons disabled)

you can also try going into the Android SAFE mode we had a topic yesterday with the keys to hold to get into SAFE mode

i need to find the link, forgot the topic tittle
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
found it!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=758678

according to this it's

Menu + Home + Power

there was another topic with another guy that was also able to get in with that

that is not the same as the 3 button recovery, it will just boot Android in Safe mode without any apps/services running

just like windows safe mode
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scouzer:
Please don't post the same thing in multiple forums.

Anyway, you are hooped. I've had 3 SGS do what you are describing and the only solution was to exchange it back to Futureshop. Here's to hoping my fourth SGS won't pull this trick. Mail it in to Samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clubtech:
Seems like your phone, like many other Bell Vibrant, got its internal SD corrupted.

This issue seems to be affecting mostly the i9000M from Bell.

There is no known fix for this yet, but getting it replaced.

Have you installed any ROM other than the official one?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
The menu touch key???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
XDA is the first vbulliten forum I've seen that doesn't allow you to dlete mistake posts?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it's a permission issue, not a vbulleting feature.

the Admins in this forum did not grant us the users ability to delete posts

there are many good reasons behind it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
Looks like I have to mail it away. They are giving me an Omnia 2 as a loaner.

ARGGGHH. I hope it doesn't take 6 weeks.

As a side note... the Omnia II is a piece of crap :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osaeero:
[Q] Need Help: Samsung Galaxy S bricked

Today I tried to flash my firmware to newest JM8. My phone is brand new and there isn't possible to use key combination to get it to download mode, so I used adb's method (adb reboot download). Before this I tried all key combination what I found in forums, nothing works.

I get it to Download mode via adb and then I started re-partitioning in Odin. It starts and I waited about hour and I thought that it stucks, because before it was faster with other SGS. I unplug USB cable and restarted phone and pc. Then I have on phone screen "phone ! computer" logo and I can't go back to download mode, because computer and adb don't regonize my phone. Also I tried all key combinations, unplug battery 5 minutes, but nothing works:(

Is there some new trick? Or have I go to Samsung service?:/ I'm sure that nothing key combinations work, because there combinations not work before flashing.

Thanks for answers... and sorry my bad english.

- Sami Eerola
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frriction:
well I am no expert but just wondering when you try combo buttons do u see any logo or something on your phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osaeero:
Only phone+!+computer picture:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkaalldd:
Welcome to the club
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] //RF:
+1

10char

EDIT: And yeah, I also didn't have the download mode on my phone... So did it with ADB. Damn stupid I know but couldn't resist it :) Going to send my phone today to be fixed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dentimarius:
Hi... Sorry for your phone man...

I have an ideea that will probably work fine for you. Try to open Kies, and than connect your phone via usb cable. Kies should be able to recognize your phone...it has an option "recover phone" or some thing like that and maybe it can recover...

But, of course you should have the drivers installed corectly.

And, I think that Samsung drivers for 64 bits are not working properly in windows 7/64 bits. I don't know why...in this conditions my Galaxy was bricked, receiving an error message "can not open port......" and "device not connected"....so it is safer to try in windows 32 bits.

Good luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] //RF:
Did you also have this on startup?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
Unlucky mate, looks like you'll be joining loads of other people on this forum. Give Samsung a call and see if they will fix it, thats always worth a shot.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icemac:
I saw it few times on my phone ;)

but with Odin (first download mode) I had got back my phone from the death.

I downgraded my FW to XWJM6 version, and then again to the newest.

Iw warked every time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garou_umbra_warrior:
i flashed it with the single click odin but noe it doesnt start at all :(

any ideas?

its stuck in the splash screen and the 3 button trick doesnt work
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] //RF:
Unfortunately download mode is not working on my phone so I can't flash new firmware.

I'm going to tell Samsung that it was faulty anyway as download mode was not working at all. I will update this thread after I hear what they say ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zerox_100:
I also got this picture once but fortunately download mode still worked.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturmeh:
No that's nothing we know of.

You had download but not recovery?!

Never heard of that one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilx:
Mine is the same, has download but not recovery. I have posted about this elsewhere on these forums
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturmeh:
Weird, but if you loose access to download mode when you need it, it's as good as not there.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anarchyuk:
now i dont have access to either so after the nice swirley animation 2.2 starts to load the screen goes black and stays like that! i need to do a factory reset as per 2.2 upgrade instructions from kies but i cant!! At least i know the linux kernel is being loaded!

Im considering buying a riff box and I can jtag it as many times as needed and maybe get some head way in sorting this problem for everyone..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Sounds like you tried to install an AT&T rom on your I9000 phone. If this is the case, you have bricked your phone, and your warranty is void. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. You're now the proud owner of a nice shiny new paperweight.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
ah come on, how about jtag? in my country, if they had the equipement it would cost only 10$ to reflash it using jtag... the shop i took it to was samsung certified so im quite optimistic.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you can get it fixed, most samsung service centers are doing it at no extra charge
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
how do you know that?

that'd make my day ^^
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
because of this

http://www.facebook.com/samsungmobilecanada

it has become a warranty issue now
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
well... i don't even have a warranty.. and its samsung canada, not europe.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guruleenyc:
I have this same problem on my Epic where Odin is stuck at 'factoryfs' file. Where do I get those file versions for Epic or how should I proceed?

Thanks in advance,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimsey:
[Q] is there anything useful on my phone following brick repair?

hi,

I got my phone back today following a brick repair.

my phone still doesn't have the 3 button recovery so the repair technician must have had some other way to reflash the software.

i've read elsewhere that following a repair there may be useful files on the phone that will help us fix the same issue.

i've been looking around the phone with root explorer for files i think may be useful to devs here but i wouldn't know for sure what to look for?

ie are these usual: 266mb of bin files in /system/ firmware, recovery.rc file in root

if anyone has any ideas how the repair was done and anything they might have left behind that could help.. please let me know
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